Directions
North, South, East and West are these types of directions.
What are cardinal directions?
The line of latitude at 0 degrees
What is the Equator?
A model of the earth that accurately shows size, shape, and distance.
What is a globe?
The star stands for this on a map.
What is the capital?
The term for the inaccurate sizes, shapes, or distances when a globe is projected onto a map
What is distortion?
The four intermediate directions.
What are northeast, southeast, northwest and southwest?
These lines run from north to south.
What are lines of longitude? (or meridians)
The type of map projection that shows Greenland to look as large as Africa (which it's not!)
What is the Mercator?
The type of map you would use to find your route from Madisonville, Kentucky, to Florida.
What is a road map (an interstate highway map)?
Used to determine distance on a map.
What is the map scale?
The symbol on every map that shows directions.
What is the compass rose?
Another name for the 0 degrees longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
The type of map projection that is the most accurate and that the National Geographic Society uses for their maps.
What is Winkel Tripel?
A map that shows landforms and geographical features on the earth's surface.
What is a physical map?
Half of the earth, divided by the equator or prime meridian
What is a hemisphere?
The equator cuts the globe into these two hemispheres.
What are northern and southern hemispheres?
Parallels is another name for these lines.
What is another name for lines of latitude?
Another term for a map's key.
What is the legend?
A map that shows how humans have divided the earth's surface.
What is a political map?
Half of the earth south of the equator.
What is the southern hemisphere?
The imaginary line that cuts the globe into the eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Lines used to measure east and west on a map.
What are meridians (or longitude lines)?
The lines on a map are measured in these units.
What are degrees?
How many hemispheres does the earth have?
What is four?
Using longitude and latitude to give a place's location
What is absolute location?